[Lmod-announce] Lmod 8.2 is now released!

[Announcing n. v. of L. <lmo...@li...>]

I am happy to release Lmod 8.2.  There are many bug fixes.  The big change is support for a new function extensions().  This feature has been in the works for a while.  I have been working with part of EasyBuild team.  (Thanks Kenneth and Ward!) to work out the feature.

This function allows sites to say that a particular module has well extensions that provide "imports".  It is likely that this will be most useful for the python and R software tools.  For example a particular python module might provide "numpy" and "scipy".  A lua module could now add:

    extensions("numpy/1.16.4", "scipy/1.2")

to the modulefile.  With that and Lmod 8.2, users will be able to know what extensions exist by running "module avail" or "module spider".  See:

    https://lmod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/330_extensions.html

for more information.


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Robert McLay, Ph.D.
Manager of Software Tools, HPC
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